The main occupation of most of the inhabitants for many centuries
One of our few manufacturing industries of the nineteenth century
Cotton thread was spun here at Batchworth Mill from about 1786 to 1811
Franklins bottled mineral water and other soft drinks at the western end of the High Street
Salters was a significant local brewery from the middle of the eighteenth century to 1926.
An unlikely motor manufacturing presence in Rickmansworth
A great south west Hertfordshire industry
The foundations of Metroland and (at least some) of London
